This course is designed to give students an opportunity to experience another facet of animation pre-production: the script. Students develop a rough story idea, including characters, settings, conflicts, resolutions, and develop of a final, 22-minute script. Several smaller creative assignments lead to the final project. At the conclusion of the course, students will understand how to write a short script, have a body of creative pre-production suitable for animation development, and understand the aspects of storytelling that make a film memorable and successful. Prerequisite: AN 2310 Creative Visualization

This elective is an introduction to the arena of interactive game design. Students create digital animations that may be used in game design and creation. At the conclusion of the course, students understand the foundations of good game design, including story development, level design and modeling, lighting and texturing. Prerequisite: AN 3360 3-D Computer Animation Concepts + Techniques

An advanced Technical Director class that examines basic programming and scripting techniques as related to specific CGI applications. Included are research, development, writing and testing of expressions and plug-ins for 2-D and 3-D software. Projects are integrated with other animation classes to solve production problems or create new CGI tools. At the conclusion of the course, students will have gained practical experience with various professional scripting/programming procedures by applying them to specific Animation Department production problems, and have a finished piece representing the work. Prerequisite: AN 4420 3-D Advanced Dynamics + SFX